Speech perception in rats: Use of duration and rise time cues in labeling of affricate/fricative sounds

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 205-215

  Reed, Phil ^a,b   Howell, Peter ^a   Sackin, Stevie ^a   Pizzimenti, Lisa ^a   Rosen, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrimination learning; Duration; Humans; Phonemes; Rats; Rise time; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; RATS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2142818190     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2003.80-205     Document Type: Article

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